"Dey ain’ a soun’ set of bowels in de whole Confedrut ahmy," observed Mammy darkly as she sweated over the fire, brewing a bitter concoction of blackberry roots which had been Ellen’s sovereign remedy for such afflictions.

There are no more uses of "sovereign" in the book.

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They may be a sovereign state, but their neighbor’s threats forced their decision.

...the first seven words of our Constitution—We the People of the United States —accurately reflect our founding belief that governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed" and the fact that that the sovereign will of the people of the United States was expressed in the Constitution itself and in our ongoing system of government created by it.

John R. Bolton -- American Justice and the International Criminal Court -- http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.22883/pub_detail.asp(retrieved 06/29/06)